We started our day with a visit to Shrewsbury, the County town of Shropshire. Its history goes way back to Roman times and there are many beautiful Georgian houses lining the streets but for me the highlight are the half-timbered Tudor buildings . They are just so charming with their…
We have really enjoyed our stay at our little house in Llandeilo but we need to move on so we set our this morning heading Northeast across the top of the Brecon Becons National Park. It wasn’t until we reached the more easterly part that we could see the mountains…
Our accommodation is lovely and quiet and we were both pretty tired when we went to bed, so I’d hoped we might get a bit of a “lie in” this morning. However, that early morning light still defeats us, we were awake before 7!At least we could take our time…
Our parking slot at the Waitrose was due to expire at 9am so we had told Erin we’d head ack to the car park at 8.45. Neil and I ate breakfast early and had a little time up our sleeves, so I went for a little walk over to the…
I was so happy to see the sun come out this morning as we ate breakfast! We had time for a short stroll around the tiny harbour in Padstow before we hitched our ride back up to the car and then collected Erin it took about 45 minutes to drive…
As expected we woke to grey skies this morning but at first the rain held off. However,by the time we collected Erin and set out on our drive the rain started to fall. The traffic heading out of Falmouth was just as bad as it had been heading in so…
We’d planned a loop drive around the “tip” of Cornwall today, to see some of the highlights of the area. Our weather continued to be glorious sunshine, we’ve been so lucky so far! Erin walked down to our hotel and we set out for St Ives. We were very glad…
For breakfast this morning we walked up the hill to the River Cottage Kitchen and Store. They open at 9 am and our breakfast here was included with our room. We had a little time to fill in before breakfast so we called my Mum and Dad for a video…
Breakfast was a lot quieter this morning, instead of hordes of families there were many tables of single people wearing lanyards, clearly here for a work event. We didn’t linger because we had an appointment – we were due to meet Erin at Slough station at 9am! As it turned…
June 8th Today was one of those “transit” days where the focus of the day was getting from one country to another without really any sightseeing. We slept well in Amiens and checked out around 9am, for the hour and a half drive back to Charles de Gaulle airport in…
Before coming to Belfast I knew that I wanted to learn some more about the “Troubles”, that incredibly turbulent time in Northern Ireland history that had been such common news on the news broadcasts when I was a teenager. So I booked us on a tour this morning, Paddy Campbell’s…
Kippers! After two weeks of “Full Scottish” and “Full Irish” breakfast I was excited to see Kippers on the menu this morning.I haven’t eaten them for years, and very nice they were too. It ws drizzly again in the morning but as we approached the border with Northern Ireland the…
